99 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 



much larger than those elsewhere : sucker ferruginous ; palpi tawny, heset 

 with long tawny bristles : feelers pale red ; second joint clothed with very 

 few black hairs ; third slightly club-shaped, a little broader and nearly 

 twice the length of the first and second joints : chest and breast black, 

 mostly adorned ivith a golden covering ; the former with tico ferruginous 

 stripes, beset on each side with a few black bristles : abdomen narrower 

 than the chest and less than twice its length, oliconical till the hind border 

 of the second segment, spindle-shaped from thence to the tip ; first and 

 second segments ferruginous ; third ferruginous for half the length from the 

 base, next traversed by a pitchy band, golden towards the tip ; fourth -pitchy, 

 with a golden hind border ; fore half of the fifth pitchy, hind half golden ; 

 the following golden ; hind border of the sixth slightly pitchy ; tip tawny, 

 clothed with pale yellow hairs ; legs tawny, clothed with short tawny hairs, 

 armed with black spines ; claws black ; foot-cushions yellow ; tip-spines of 

 fore-shanks black, much curved : wings gray, with a tawny tinge along the 

 borders of the veins ; wing-ribs and veins ferruginous ; poisers yellow. 

 Length of the body 7 lines ; of the wings 14 lines. 



Dasypogon festinans, Mas. 



Ferrngineus, capiie aureo, thoracis disco, abdominisque lasi nigris, anten- 

 nisfnlvis, pedibus ferrugineis, alis fulvis margine postico snblimpidis. 



Head adorned with a golden covering, beset behind the eyes with a 

 row of tawny bristles ; crown pitchy, shining, beset with black bristles ; 

 epistoma beset with eight or ten pale yellow bristles : eyes black ; forepart 

 flat, its facets larger than those elsewhere : sucker black ; palpi tawny, 

 clothed with yellow hairs : feelers tawny ; first and second joints beset with 

 black bristles ; third spindle-shaped, longer than the first and the second : 

 chest and breast ferruginous ; disk of the former mostly black : abdomen fer- 

 ruginous, shining, narrower than the chest, and more than twice its leiigth, 

 obconical from the base to the hind border of the second segment, linear 

 along the third segment, spindle-shaped from thence to the tip ; base of 

 the abdomen, and sides of the first, second and third segments mostly black ; 

 tip clothed with tawny hairs ; legs ferruginous, armed with ferruginous 

 spines, clothed with short tawny hairs ; claws black, tawny at the base ; 

 foot-cushions pale tawny ; ti}i-spincs of fore-shanks ferruginous, curved : 

 wings tawny, nearly colourless along the hind border, with the exception 



